Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Friday, January 07, 2011

Well, OK...

Happy 400th birthday, KJV!

The greatest point I get from the article (which is quite well done, and easily read at any level of reading comprehension or Scripture knowledge) is that a great debt is owed to the translators of the King James Bible, for completing the best translation to that time. And it's a good point. It doesn't take away from the fact that newer translations, based on better knowledge of the original languages and more comparative copies and fragments, are superior. The most interesting thing is that he states that only the original manuscripts (autographs) are inerrant and not the translations. I can think of a number of KJV adherents who would disagree with him!


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